Python - REST, JSON, and APIs - Quiz

Question 1

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1. Question 1

Who is credited with the REST approach to web services?

Daphne Koller

Bjarne Stroustrup

Leonard Klienrock

Vint Cerf

Roy Fielding

Question 2

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2. Question 2

What Python library do you have to import to parse and handle JSON?

ElementTree

BeautifulSoup

import re

import json

Question 3

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3. Question 3

Which of the following is a web services approach used by the Twitter API?

SOAP

REST

XML-RPC

CORBA

Question 4

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4. Question 4

What kind of variable will you get in Python when the following JSON is parsed:

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{ "id" : "001",



"x" : "2",



"name" : "Chuck"



}

A list with six items

A list of tuples

A dictionary with three key / value pairs

A tuple with three items

A list with three items

Question 5

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5. Question 5

Which of the following is not true about the service-oriented approach?

An application makes use of the services provided by other applications

Web services and APIs are used to transfer data between applications

Standards are developed where many pairs of applications must work together

An application runs together all in one place

Question 6

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6. Question 6

Which of these two web service approaches is preferred in most modern service-oriented applications?

REST - Representational state transfer

SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol

Question 7

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7. Question 7

What library call do you make to append properly encoded parameters to the end of a URL like the following:

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http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?sensor=false&address=Ann

+Arbor%2C+MI

re.encode()

urllib.parse.urlencode()

re.match()

urllib.urlcat()

Question 8

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8. Question 8

What happens when you exceed the Google geocoding API rate limit?

Your application starts to perform very slowly

You canot use the API until you respond to an email that contains a survey question

You cannot use the API for 24 hours

The API starts to perform very slowly

Question 9

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9. Question 9

What protocol does Twitter use to protect its API?

Java Web Tokens

OAuth

SOAP

SHA1-MD5

PKI-HMAC

WS*Security

Question 10

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10. Question 10

What header does Twitter use to tell you how many more API requests you can make before you will be rate limited?

x-max-requests

content-type

x-request-count-down

x-rate-limit-remaining